[Info-vax] Message from HP.

["Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)"]

Le 08/12/2013 18:26, johnson.eric at gmail.com a écrit :
> Perhaps HP would better connect their VMS clients to firms like Sector7 or Transoft. But even then, its just an introduction. It's not a migration. And those migrations can take years.
They already are doing that, in UK, France and Sweeden.

Their talk is : "we want to help you for the transition". In Europe they 
try to create a sort of network of consultants (with HP on the top of it).

And in the official talks they laud Non-Stop, Non-Stop and Non-Stop 
again : I think in a sort of wishfull-thinking, they imagine VMS 
customers wil go to Non-Stop.

I agree about what you said : however it is years of work for some 
sites, with huge functional risks. And the point is : for the site that 
are now on VMS, except some lazzy ones, they have very good and specific 
needs, which legacy translators, even the best, like transoft or 
sector7, are not able to address.

Don't forget here it is also a serie of scientific issues : 
translatability, knowledge transfert, conservation of sla over 
translations, ratio and function of human resources in the high hability 
systems...

All these scientific issues are relative new issues, because the event 
of knowing of specifics needs for mission critical is knew, alltogether 
with translation for mission critical systems. For now firms like 
Sector7 or Transoft have solutions for the easiest cases, and had not be 
choosed for now for difficult cases... because their solutions are not 
sufficient.

I think one of the best argument to have poulson for VMS is saying : "ok 
we'll go out from VMS, but we need at least 10 years with the best 
itanium around for us, and a big support for transition".